Today we put our eyes on Yangzhou, as we all know, Yangzhou in history is a trade port that integrates land and water transportation, where cultural relics from many historical periods, especially ceramic cultural relics, are countless. And today we want to talk about a national treasure-level cultural relics from Yangzhou.
Many netizens will ask, yangzhou is not no porcelain kiln field, why this national treasure level cultural relics are from Yangzhou. First of all, as mentioned earlier, Yangzhou is a trade port, and many items are traded in the Yangzhou area, so the appearance of ceramics in Yangzhou is not a new thing, and this national treasure-level cultural relic, there is also a story of a loser who mistakenly sold heirlooms, and the state estimated 4 billion.
Things have to start from 1976, speaking of 1976, everyone can say that the memory of the tangshan earthquake is still fresh, but at that time, not only in Tangshan there was an earthquake, but also in Yangzhou there were earthquakes of varying degrees, for a time people were panicked, and in the countryside Zhu Liheng's home, was counting items.
Why inventory the items, is to take stock of some valuable items, and then move to a safe place, to avoid the collapse of the house because of the earthquake to damage the valuable items, when counting the items, Zhu Liheng found a box, in Zhu Liheng's memory of this box has a little memory, it is a plum bottle, a very beautiful looking plum bottle.
Regarding this plum bottle, his mother once told him that his family's ancestors had been officials for generations, and after a meritorious service, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty rewarded this plum bottle to Zhu Liheng's ancestors, and then passed it on to Zhu Liheng's generation, a total of six generations. Mother said that although we are now in the middle of the family, this plum bottle has witnessed the most prosperous period of the family, so it is very important and must be paid attention to.
Later, during the war years, everything in the Zhu family was robbed, and this plum bottle was protected by the family with its life, and it was passed on to Zhu Liheng's hands, and someone once wanted to exchange 18 stone rice for this plum bottle, and the Zhu family did not exchange it, it is reasonable to say that at that time, the eighteen stone rice family could eat for a long time, but the Zhu family did not exchange.
Later, because When Zhu Liheng was young, he was particularly curious about this plum bottle, and several times he wanted to sneak out to see what magic this plum bottle had, the family attached so much importance to it, and later his mother was afraid that Zhu Liheng would break the plum bottle and use a cabinet to pack it up and properly collect it, so Since then Zhu Liheng has never seen this plum bottle again.
And this time counting the things in the family, found this box, Zhu Liheng opened the box, found that inside is a black, does not look very valuable, not very good-looking broken bottle, to see that since it is the family heirloom of six generations, presumably it should be an antique, can be worth a few dollars.
The living conditions at home are very poor, and the wife always scolds herself for being useless, making too little money, and even making difficulties for her children to go to school, so she has the idea of selling this plum bottle for a few dollars to supplement the family. So carrying his mother behind his back, Zhu Liheng took the black-looking plum bottle to an antique shop in Yangzhou and wanted to sell it.
At that time, when the clerk of the antique shop saw this black plum bottle, he did not feel anything, but just judged an era, and the clerk surnamed Lan concluded that it was a private imitation of the Qing Dynasty, and only quoted the price of sixteen yuan, and later in Zhu Liheng's bargain, he finally sold the plum bottle to this Yangzhou antique shop for 18 yuan.
Later, when Zhu Liheng's mother and brother learned of this matter, they scolded Zhu Liheng even more, saying that he sold the family heirloom that had been passed down for six generations for 18 yuan, which was a loser, and in the years that followed, his mother and brother never forgave Zhu Liheng.
And this plum bottle sold by Zhu Liheng for 18 yuan, in the Yangzhou antique shop, also did not receive good treatment, because it is black, feel that there is no artistic value, so casually placed in the store, waiting for them to buy, but no one has come to buy this black plum bottle, until one day.
On this day, there was a guest in the Yangzhou antique shop, this guest was called Shen Shengli, he turned around in the shop, inadvertently found this black plum bottle in the corner, looked at the introduction, it was the Qing Yongzheng period, but with Shen Shengli's experience, this plum bottle should be from the Yuan Dynasty.
When Shen Shengli communicated with the owner of the antique shop, he found that the outside of this plum bottle seemed to be a layer of ink, so he dipped his fingers in a little saliva and wiped it on the plum bottle, instantly revealing the white dragon ornament inside, this discovery made the owner of the antique shop find unusual, so he brought clean water and wiped the whole plum bottle.
After Qing cleaned up the whole plum bottle, Shen Shengli found that this is a Ji blue white dragon pattern plum bottle, the whole plum bottle whether from the color, glaze, tire, bottom and other aspects, this is a Yuan Dynasty plum bottle, enamel hypertrophy, clean glaze, dark blue color, the overall height of 43.5, caliber 5.5, bottom diameter of 14cm, white dragon around the body, dragon head raised, dragon claw sharp, very imposing.
And the dragon pattern on the plum bottle made Shen Shengli sure that this was a Yuan Dynasty Ji Lan Shu White Dragon Pattern Plum Bottle. Later, after several turns, this plum bottle appeared on the 1978 Beijing "Cultural Relics Report Exhibition", this plum bottle once exhibited, attracted countless people's praise, and Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai and other museums want to collect.
And the director of the Yangzhou Museum, Yan Bingsen, chose to find the owner of the Yangzhou Cultural Relics Store for the first time, and proposed to buy this plum bottle, and the Yangzhou boss felt that there were many people who wanted to buy this plum bottle now, and the psychology of those who reported the high price said that they would consider it again.
Later, after many visits from the Yangzhou Municipal Museum, Yangzhou Municipal Government, Yangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture and others, the owner of the Yangzhou Cultural Play Shop finally agreed to sell this Ji blue glazed dragon pattern plum bottle to the Yangzhou Museum for three thousand yuan. And this matter was also known to Zhu Liheng, the original owner of this plum bottle, and he regretted it even more.
After the Yangzhou Museum acquired this plum bottle, it invited Mr. Feng Xianming of the Palace Museum and Wang Zhimin of the Nanjing Museum to choose to appreciate, and both agreed that this was the finest of the blue-glazed porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty in Jingdezhen, with a market price of 4 billion yuan, such a high valuation and such a high artistic value, which naturally became the treasure of the Yangzhou Museum.
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